Railroad-rail anticreeping device



E. G. WALLINDER.

RAILROAD RAIL'ANTICREEPING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 1,1921.

1,41 1,318. Patented Apr, 4, 1922.

PATENT oer-Ice.

ERICK G. WALLINDER, 0F DULUTH MINNESOTA.

RAILROAD-RAIL ANTIGRIVEEPYING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Yatent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

Application filed October 1, 1921. Serial No. 504,783.

T 0 all 10. 2.0922 it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enron G. \lhiLLiNone, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad- Rail Anticreeping Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing;

This invention relates to railroad track construction andhas special reference to a novel form of combination tie plate and anti-creeping device. w

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, efiicient and durable wearing plate and means for automatically preventing the longitudinal creeping or moving of the rail to which the plate is applied.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the further description of the invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application in which like reference characters indicate like parts: Figure 1 is a transverse vertical sectional view of a rail mounted up'onone of the improved tie plates.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of a tie plate showing one of the anti-creeping devices applied thereto,

Figure 3 is an enlarged transverse vertical sectional view through one'of the anticreeping members in the plate, and.

Figure L is a side elevation of one of the anti-creeping members.

1 designates the tie or wearing plate which is preferably rectangular in form and provided with three upstanding ribs 2. 3 and st, formed integral therewith and. extending transverse the entire width of the plate. I j

The two ribs 3 and 4 are spaced apart and inwardly of the extreme ends of the plate, they being the rail engaging ribs-and interinediate of which'the base of the rail,

indicated at 5, fits, while the rib 2 is formed upon the extreme upper corner of the out a side end of the plate and acts as. a stop for the base of the aiwularly shaped brace plate 6, the upper end of which fits within the corner 7 of the rail intermediate of the lower extremity of the bulb of the rail and the web thereof. This brace plate is only slidable into position longitudinally of the rail'after the tie plate has been applied thereto, the latter being applicable to the rail'transversely thereof, as the thrust of the. rib 3 is provided with longitudinally disposed cut-away portions 8 and 9 to permit of such application of the plate to the rail.

This form of plate and brace is known to the art, it having been described in my copending application, Se-r. No. 473,817 filed May 31st, 1921, and the novel features as sociated with this combination are the series of flute like grooves or channels 10 formed longitudinally of the plate and in relation to the rail transversely thereof. There may be any number of these grooves desired, as is evident, but I prefer the arrangement as shown for convenience in the manufacture of these plates, as they would ordinarily be rolled in the form of a bar and subsequently cut into the desired width of plate. Y inclined slightly outwardly as at 11 and the lower corners rounded as at 12 and a relatively small narrow similarly shaped groove 13' in the center of the bottom thereof. The incline of the sides 11 of the grooves results in convenience in the forming of the plate by rolling and permits of the flaring of the edges of the anti-creeping block or key 14, thisbeing the most desir- "able form of the key forbest results in engaging the under face of the base of the rail. The upper face of the key 14 is concaved at 15 or fluted longitudinally forming the two cutting edges 16 the full length thereof and said keys, are tempered or hardened so that the edges 16 will slightly indent themselves within the lower face of the base of the rail when the latter is forcibly brought into place upon the plate as the edges of the key extend slightly above the plane of the upper face of the plate, though not sufficiently to prevent the rail resting flatly thereupon. The key 14 is provided with a keel like extension or rib 19 along the bottom thereof which rockably fits within the small groove 13 in the bottom of each channel 10, this beingfor the purpose of permanently centralizing the key and insuring against its frictional contact against the sides of the channels 10,

The sides of these grooves are which will permanently hold the plate in position under the rail.

Suitable spike holes 17 are shown on either side of the plate for securely spiking the latter to the tie in the usual manner.

It is evident from the foregoing that the fluting of the tie plates not only provides means for the application of the anti-creeping members but results in lightness of construction of the plates in the place most desirable for such and that the flutes not extending the entire width of the uppermost bearing face of the plate does not in any way jeopardize the supporting effectiveness of the same and that the saving in plate material by this construction will approximately compensate for the additional expense in providing the anti-creeping keys.

Now when the rail is thus mounted upon this combination braced plate and anticreeper, should the rail attempt to move endwise the creeper keys with their cutting edges embedded in the lower face of the rail will instantly retard the same by their tendency to rock within the slots which tendency results in increased impingement of the edge of the base of the rail against the lip 18 of the rib 3, thus positively holding the rail at all times against creeping longitudinally.

After the cutting edges of the anti-creeping keys become once embedded or sealed within the base of the rail no further wear or effect to them results from the continued use of the rail.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

.1. The combination with a railroad tie plate of the character described having spaced ribs intermediate of which the base of the rail rests, one of said ribs having means for overlapping engagement with'the base of the rail, of grooves or channels withgral therewith, two of said ribs being spaced apart for the reception of the base of a rail,

one of which overlappingly engages the same, grooves within the upper wearing face of the tie plate, anti-creeping means within said grooves and a brace plate intermediate of the third rib and the bulb of the rail, whereby the base of the latter is held in constant engagement with the anti-creeping means.

3. An anti-creeping device for railroad rails of the character described comprising a support for the rail, substantially U- shaped channels or grooves Within the support transverse the rail, arelatively small central groove within each channel and longitudinally thereof, a substantially U-s'haped key carried within the channel with its up permost edges engaging the rail,'said key having a rib centrally thereof forengagement with the central groovewithin the channel and bearing shoulders upon either side of the rib and spaced therefrom, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. A device of the character. described comprising in combination a rail supporting tie plate having three upwardly extending ribs transversely thereof and formed integral therewith, two of said ribs being spaced apart for the reception of the base of a rail, a brace plate intermediate of the third rib and the bulb of the rail, grooves within. the upper wearing face of the tie plate and substantially U-shaped anti-creeping blocks within said grooves, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifixmy signature in the presence of two witnesses. ERICK G. WALLINDER. WVitnesses: i

S. O. BRONSON, S. GEO. STEVENS. 

